José Gomes is no longer the Almería coach. He has been removed by express order of the owner and president Turki Al Sheikh. The Portuguese coach, who has already signed the settlement, said goodbye to the squad who gave him a standing ovation, in the dressing room, when he finished his emotional speech. Djukic is a candidate to replace him without ruling out Rubi.
Almería is third, six points behind Mallorca with 6 games remaining to finish LaLiga, José Gomes has added 62 points. Last year the team added 64 in total throughout the season.to. Second team, behind RCD Espanyol, that has scored the most goals * (51 goals to date) in the entire category. He has played a total of 36 league games, with a balance of 18 victories, 8 draws and 10 defeats.
Striker Sadiq was a personal bet by José Gomes, who recommended his signing, assuring that he would give the team more than 15 goals. He has already been 16 and is the third top scorer in the category behind Djurdjevic and Raúl de Tomás that, in addition, they take the penalties of their team, something that Sadiq does not do because in Almería they are usually thrown by Corpas.
After eliminating two First Division teams (Alavés and Osasuna), he managed to qualify the team for the second time in its history for the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. and endowed the team with a recognized identity with an offensive soccer style. At the crossing of the Cup, Julen Lopetegui praised their style and even said that “Almería is a First Division team.”
He implemented a system of rotations that caused a sensation their rotations to maximize the staff. The whole 11 has changed 8 times (Sabadell, Rayo, Oviedo, Alcorcón, Zaragoza, Osasuna, Castellón and Sevilla) and 2 times the whole eleven minus 1 player (Tenerife and Fuenlabrada) He has always won, except for the Cup match against Sevilla and a league game against Leganés.
He has been the coach with the most matches of the Turki Al-Sheikh era. To date Guti had it with 22. He has directed 43 in total. A recognizable team but the owner made a risky decision on the streak of a win in nine games-
In a farewell statement Gomes reflected: “And these players to whom I am grateful for their effort in a very demanding season have shown to be capable of having a great spirit of improvement. as they also demonstrated in the Copa del Rey. Only two games separate the goal from promotion and it is not unreasonable to think that it is perfectly achievable, I would have liked to have tried to the end. But football is like that”.
In addition to that of José Gomes, the rojiblanca entity has also terminated the respective contracts of members of its coaching staff, in the case of André Bikey, Jorge Mendoça, Joao Pinedo, Jorge Baptista and Claudio Lope and Jaime Alberto Barbos. If the contract termination negotiations dragged on until 5 a.m., the search for the new coach continues. The first option, Rubi, has moved away, and Djukic continues in the lead of the candidates, without ruling out preparers from the Portuguese market and even others until now unknown to the rojiblanco club. Either way, Gomes is already history at UD Almería, despite the fact that there were several players who spoke with the technical secretariat to show their interest in the continuity of the former Marítimo.